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timepiececlockHello, hello folks! I have Linguistics field project that I need you guys to help me with. You see, I was collecting data IRL, but I lost some of the documents and I need new data from people. Can you help me in my time of emergency? I need to get at least 18 people to fill this out, the more the better. Men are especially welcome since there's so few on my friends list. Er... that I know about, anyway. ;P
If you guys could answer these 8 survey questions, that would be great.
If you could then create a link in your journal to this entry to spread the word about my survey, that would be even better. But that's not part of the survey, so you don't have to and you could just answer the questions.
Thank you so so much.
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SURVEY
Gender:
Nationality/ the country of residence which most affected your speech:
Age:
If you are 29 years or younger, do not fill out any more questions. You may leave now with my thanks.
If you are 30 years or older, please answer the following opinion questions to the best of your ability, and feel free to elaborate as much as you like:
1. Do you think language and vocabulary in common daily use has changed since 1990?
2. Do you think widespread computer technology has had a significant effect on the vocabulary you use and understand in the last 10-15 years?
3. How would you say the vocabulary of you, your children, or the people you know has changed since 1990 with the popularization of the internet?
4. What are some new words, phrases, idioms, or other bits of figurative language you might use now that you did not use 10-15 years ago? Do these relate to technology or to other things in life?
5. What are some positive aspects of changes in slang, terminology, idioms, etc. that have occurred since or resulting from the 90s and beyond?
6. What aspects of changes in slang, terminology, idioms, etc. frustrate you or do you dislike?
7. What’s your favorite word, phrase, term or idiom introduced in the last 10-15 years?
8. Do you have a job in the computer/tech industry, and if so how might that affect your answers on this survey?
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Thank you for participating. NOTE: The age question is very important so please be honest about it... my project involves the perspective of people over 30 because that's an age wherein I judged that people would have lived long enough to accurately measure some changes in the language over longer periods of time. Of course, if you want to fill it out for fun, you're welcome to do so. Just make sure you tell me so on the age question. :)
EDIT: I've got enough now, thank you!
If you guys could answer these 8 survey questions, that would be great.
If you could then create a link in your journal to this entry to spread the word about my survey, that would be even better. But that's not part of the survey, so you don't have to and you could just answer the questions.
Thank you so so much.
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SURVEY
Gender:
Nationality/ the country of residence which most affected your speech:
Age:
If you are 29 years or younger, do not fill out any more questions. You may leave now with my thanks.
If you are 30 years or older, please answer the following opinion questions to the best of your ability, and feel free to elaborate as much as you like:
1. Do you think language and vocabulary in common daily use has changed since 1990?
2. Do you think widespread computer technology has had a significant effect on the vocabulary you use and understand in the last 10-15 years?
3. How would you say the vocabulary of you, your children, or the people you know has changed since 1990 with the popularization of the internet?
4. What are some new words, phrases, idioms, or other bits of figurative language you might use now that you did not use 10-15 years ago? Do these relate to technology or to other things in life?
5. What are some positive aspects of changes in slang, terminology, idioms, etc. that have occurred since or resulting from the 90s and beyond?
6. What aspects of changes in slang, terminology, idioms, etc. frustrate you or do you dislike?
7. What’s your favorite word, phrase, term or idiom introduced in the last 10-15 years?
8. Do you have a job in the computer/tech industry, and if so how might that affect your answers on this survey?
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Thank you for participating. NOTE: The age question is very important so please be honest about it... my project involves the perspective of people over 30 because that's an age wherein I judged that people would have lived long enough to accurately measure some changes in the language over longer periods of time. Of course, if you want to fill it out for fun, you're welcome to do so. Just make sure you tell me so on the age question. :)
EDIT: I've got enough now, thank you!
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Thank Kimberly_a for pointing me here :)
Date: 2004-03-15 09:34 pm (UTC)Nationality/ the country of residence which most affected your speech: USA
Age: 30
If you are 29 years or younger, do not fill out any more questions. You may leave now with my thanks.
If you are 30 years or older, please answer the following opinion questions to the best of your ability, and feel free to elaborate as much as you like:
1. Do you think language and vocabulary in common daily use has changed since 1990?
Absolutely
2. Do you think widespread computer technology has had a significant effect on the vocabulary you use and understand in the last 10-15 years?
Again, absolutely
3. How would you say the vocabulary of you, your children, or the people you know has changed since 1990 with the popularization of the internet?
I think my vocabulary has changed in many ways: 1) There is so much technical and computer related "lingo" in our language now and it's almost impossible to communicate with others without using these terms. (e-mail, URL, World Wide Web, Yahoo, Google, IM, text message, bytes, windows, desktops, DSL, ISP, POP, dot-com) 2) With so much information available in one place, I come across many words that are "new to me" and motivate me to look them up (also much easier with online dictionaries). Language that I should/could have learned through schooling is expanded now by the new exposure to words and the easy access to learning them. 3) Communities, chatrooms, online games... these settings and more encourage you to interact with people from other countries whose own language begins to get incorporated into your own. I personally find myself incorporating subconsciously a lot of terms I learn from friends in England, such as numpty, whinged, ring you, full stop, hoover. 4) Communication seems to be much more informal these days through online interaction and therefor I find more euphonisms as well as acronyms are incorporated into my speech.
4. What are some new words, phrases, idioms, or other bits of figurative language you might use now that you did not use 10-15 years ago? Do these relate to technology or to other things in life?
As listed above, computer related lingo as well as words and phrases picked up from others in different regions of my own country as well as other countries. TV, music, and movies have also had a continual impact upon my language.
5. What are some positive aspects of changes in slang, terminology, idioms, etc. that have occurred since or resulting from the 90s and beyond?
I think the ability to broaden your vocabulary (not even with new words or slang, but existing ones that perhaps with out the internet one might not have been exposed to it) is a wonderful positive aspect. Also, when I was younger and did much more traveling, I found that much of the slang that was used was centralized to particular areas. Now that individuals are able to communicate regularly with people from all over, slang is more generalized over larger areas.
6. What aspects of changes in slang, terminology, idioms, etc. frustrate you or do you dislike?
I am personally not fond of the laziness that the internet has seemed to spawn within individuals. The increasing use of acronyms for just about everything. Poor grammar being accepted more and more. The use of net-speak (U R 2 QT!)
7. What’s your favorite word, phrase, term or idiom introduced in the last 10-15 years?
I think the words I've used more regularly now are numpty and wassup.
8. Do you have a job in the computer/tech industry, and if so how might that affect your answers on this survey?
No, I do not work in the computer/tech industry.